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Fidel Castro Odinga: The man who could have become Raila

His father named him after the legendary Cuban revolutionary, Castro. But when Fidel came into this world in 1973, the baby who would grow into a towering hunk would never have guessed the demands that come with being an Odinga.

Scion of a family that has defined protest and opposition politics since the 1950s, he seems to have lived in the shadows of his illustrious forbearers; grandson of a Vice President, son of a Prime Minister; Ida's boy, the strong matriarch who held the family together throughout most of the family's troubled history.

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